Undergraduate - Area of study Human resource management

NOTE: This area of study has had one or more changes made to it since publication on 1 October 2014. For details of changes, please consult the 2015 Handbook change register2015 Handbook change register (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2015handbooks/2015-change-register.html).

Human resource management (HRM) is the study of overseeing people and culture in employing organisations in a global, as well as a local, context. The major critically examines and applies HRM strategies and practices that enable organisations to achieve their strategic objectives as well as enabling employees to fulfill their needs at work. Studying HRM enhances students' capacity for interpreting and applying employment law, people strategies, employee and industrial relations as well as dealing with workforce conflict, planning, ethics and governance.

This major equips students for careers as human resource professionals, including staff and consulting roles in employment relations, training and development, and recruitment and selection. The major also helps anyone in other work roles to understand people and culture issues which everyone faces in all employing organisations, whether they are large or small organisations.